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Laughter out of place : race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown / / Donna M. Goldstein ; with a new preface



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Autore: Goldstein Donna M Visualizza persona
Titolo: Laughter out of place : race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown / / Donna M. Goldstein ; with a new preface Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013]
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
Disciplina: 305.5/68/098153
Soggetto topico: Marginality, Social - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro
Poor - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro
Slums - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro
Violence - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro
Sex - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro
Soggetto geografico: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Race relations
Soggetto non controllato: activism
black humor
black humour
brazil
brazilian history
brazilian society
civic
class
cultural anthropology
culture of poverty
economic desperation
engaging
ethnicity
ethnography
historical
history of brazil
history
joking
latin america
laughter
minority studies
page turner
political
politics
postcolonial
poverty
race
realistic
retrospective
rio de janeiro
social abandonment
social issues
social justice
social science
sociology
south america
urban poverty
urban shantytowns
urbanism
violence
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface to the 2013 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laughter "Out of Place" -- Chapter 2. The Aesthetics of Domination. Class, Culture, and the Lives of Domestic Workers -- Chapter 3. Color-Blind Erotic Democracies, Black Consciousness Politics, and the Black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna -- Chapter 4. No Time for Childhood -- Chapter 5. State Terror, Gangs, and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 6. Partial Truths, or the Carnivalization of Desire -- Chapter 7. What's So Funny about Rape? -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Donna M. Goldstein presents a hard-hitting critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty" in this compelling read. Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro, who cope with unbearable suffering, violence and social abandonment. The book offers a clear-eyed view of socially conditioned misery while focusing on the creative responses-absurdist and black humor-that people generate amid daily conditions of humiliation, anger, and despair. Goldstein helps us to understand that such joking and laughter is part of an emotional aesthetic that defines the sense of frustration and anomie endemic to the political and economic desperation among residents of the shantytown.
Titolo autorizzato: Laughter out of place  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95541-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822027503321
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Serie: California Series in Public Anthropology